Hi Jeremy and Mappa Mercia people I spoke with Bob Barr (AGI) about this recently and whilst he was enthusiastic about a Midlands UK SOTM bid he shares the concern that if the dates are not closely aligned with FOSS4G we risk diluting attendance at both events. Jonathan@Spiffymap has also made the point that asking people to commit to travel abroad for more than 2 weeks would increase their costs and impact on work commitments. The current Mappa Mercia proposal is for 6th to 8th. I would support 12-14th or even 14-16th with a day's overlap. If we can co-ordinate on the programme we could avoid clashes of content. If you were travelling from Japan, say, a week 14-21st is possible. 6th to 21st is unrealistic for most people.
Both these events rely on voluntary effort to succeed. I think it is more rewarding for volunteers, as well as easier to raise sponsorship, to promote one packed week of open geo as a joint effort than two separate events. best Andrew On 21 Dec 2012, at 15:35, Jeremy Morley <jeremy.mor...@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote: > > Dear all, > > Sorry to land suddenly in this list. Most of you won't know me - I work at > the University of Nottingham (as my sig says) in GIS. I've been part of > research work relating to OSM at UCL in the past, and the group I lead also > research or interact with OSM in various ways (e.g. the OSM-GB project, > osmgb.org.uk ). > > We also work in open source GIS and with OSGeo and it's with that hat on > that I'm actually emailing. I'm one of the co-chairs for the FOSS4G > conference in September 2013 that's being organised at the East Midlands > Conference Centre here in Nottingham, back-to-back with the AGI GeoCommunity > conference. In different ways there will be activities running from 16-22 > September though our main dates are 17-21 Sept. I've cc'ed Steven Feldman > and Jo Cook on this email who are the Chair and the other Co-Chair > respectively. > > Speaking for the FOSS4G local organisers, we're really keen to see > complementarity between the SotM and FOSS4G (and GeoCom, whose working group > I'm on as a FOSS4G liaison). We'd like to work with you on how all these > events can profit from each other. I'm happy to be a point of contact, at > least for now. It seems to me that Birmingham is more useful for SotM/FOSS4G > interaction than Durham or Southampton! > > I've not been able to back-track on the OSM mailing lists as to when you're > aiming at actually holding the conference, possibly because I'm not on the > Mappa Mercia lists. Our strong hope would be that you'd go for the 12-14 > Sept time frame. > > Anyway, I hope I/we (the FOSS4G LOC) can be helpful and constructive and > really get the communities together in the UK in September. Please do drop > me a line if you want to interact on this. I'd be happy to be added to the > Mappa Mercia discussion if appropriate. > > Regards, > Jeremy > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ -- > Jeremy Morley > Geospatial Science Theme Leader, Nottingham Geospatial Institute, > Triumph Road, University of Nottingham. NG7 2TU, United Kingdom. > Web: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi Twitter: jeremy_morley > Tel.: +44/0 115 84 68411 > Email: jeremy.mor...@nottingham.ac.uk > > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may > contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, > please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, > copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any > attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do > not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. > > This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment > may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: > you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the > University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list > Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands _______________________________________________ Talk-gb-westmidlands mailing list Talk-gb-westmidlands@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb-westmidlands
